Along Came a Spider is a 2001 American thriller film directed by Lee Tamahori. It is the second installment in the Alex Cross film series and a sequel to the 1997 film Kiss the Girls, with Morgan Freeman and Jay O. Sanders reprising their roles as detective Alex Cross and FBI agent Kyle Craig. The screenplay by Marc Moss was adapted from the 1993 novel by James Patterson, but many of the key plot elements of the book were eliminated. The film received mixed reviews from critics and was a box office success, grossing $105.2 million worldwide.